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Wataru Yoshizumi
| born |
June 18, 1963
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| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
Tokyo, Japan |
| genre |
Comics & Graphic Novels, Romance
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| influences |
Naoko Takeuchi, Ai Yazawa, Miho Obana, and Megumi Mizusawa |
about this author
Wataru Yoshizumi (吉住渉, Yoshizumi Wataru) is a Japanese mangaka. She was born as Mari Nakai (中井 真里, Nakai Mari) on June 18, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated with a degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University.
Yoshizumi started her career as a mangaka while working as an office lady. Her debut manga was a yomikiri (short story) called "Radical Romance" that was published in 1984, in the summer issue of Ribon Original. She is known as a social mangaka, and is a good friend of fellow mangakas Naoko Takeuchi, Ai Yazawa, Miho Obana, and Megumi Mizusawa.
Yoshizumi currently (as of 2007) has her works published in both Ribon and Chorus.
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